It is all obvious or trivial except…

Why do we trust these fuckwits with anything complex?

This idea that the State, the all encompassing government, can aid and help us in these complex moments of life? That they\’ve got the power, the will and even the ability, to solve difficult things?

A \”completely unacceptable\” UK Border Agency backlog of more than 16,000 applications from migrants for permission to stay in Britain, some of them dating back almost a decade, has been uncovered by the chief inspector of borders and immigration.

John Vine says the backlog includes 14,000 people who are married to British citizens but whose appeals were put on hold while UKBA sorted out a policy to deal with them. The chief inspector says this marriage backlog was rising at the rate of 700 a month when he carried out his inspection last September.

He also raises \”particular concern\” over an extra 2,100 cases of temporary migrants in Britain who have not even had an initial decision on their applications to extend their stay in the country.

Vine says the files in these \”complex\” cases, which go back to 2003, were discovered in boxes that had been transferred last March from a UKBA unit in Croydon to their offices in Sheffield where they had not been dealt with at the time of the inspection.

They\’re not actually capable of getting a bureaucrat to read a file. Something which should be about as difficult as persuading a pig to rootle in the mud. I mean, this is what they are for, this is what bureaucrats do. Read files.

So the argument in favour of letting these fuckwits run our health care system, education system, economy, is what?

how long since the border control/immigration function of the home office was deemed ‘not fit for purpose’?
how many re-organisations have there been in response to hysterical shrieks from the media/commentators?

Arnald: the boxes are in the UKBA’s care, even if the process of reading them had been outsourced it must still be the work of the UKBA to get the files to the people that should read them

Not to talk about the fact that outsourcing seems to work pretty well for a lot of companies and when it doesn’t things will be brought back in-house ASAP. Just shows how poor the government is even at running tenders for outsourcing stuff. (something that will be confirmed by anyone who has ever been involved in responding to government tenders, in the UK or elsewhere)

Much more common in the public sector tho’. If private companies screw up they tend to get shit-canned(unless they are contracting for the state, when they get “extensions” and “renegotiations” from the senior bureaucrat who gave them the contract ’cause the said bureaucrat doesn’t want any heat on his/her arse).

Please don’t pick on Arnald’s language skills, it most be remembered that Arnald is a foreigner on Guernsey’s fair shores, so English probably isn’t his first language, it’ll be French, German, Italian or (highly unlikely I would have thought) Romansh.

That’s what happens when you allow dodgy foreigners on our shores, dependencies, dominions and Bailiwick’s.

No doubt I will now be subject to an offensive riposte from our itinerant Channel Islander. Such is life…

@ CHF
That was a consequence of a previous error that effectively abolished the insurance bit of “National Insurance”: if NHS, unemployment benefit, old age pensions etc reverted to being conditional on the guy’s (i.e. claimant’s or husband’s) contribution record, Labour would never have had a reason for all that racist legislation.